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Chapter 22: Southeast Asia

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In animism, how do people worship?

a)

attend church on sundays

b)

go to mosque on Fridays

c)

perform rituals to please spirits

d)

give honor to the national ruler

2.

What religion did Europeans spread to Southeast Asia?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Christianity

c)

Hinduism

d)

Islam

3.

About how many young people in Thailand work in cities?

a)

1 out of 3

b)

2 out of 5

c)

3 out of 4

d)

4 out of 5

4.

What force was most responsible for causing European lang. to gain influence in Southeast Asia?

a)

Colonialism

b)

immigration

c)

religion

d)

trade

5.

When a regional lang. disappears what is lost?

a)

economic opportunity

b)

educational progress

c)

national unity

d)

traditional culture

6.

Why do poachers kill Asian elephants?

a)

for tusks

b)

for meat

c)

for hides

d)

for bones

7.

How has the migration of young people to cities affected religious practices in Thailand?

a)

Fewer young men are spending time as monks

b)

There are lots of monks

c)

monks are going extinct

d)

Taco bell has become popular

8.

Why do elephants and farmers sometimes come into conflict?

a)

Loss of habitat causes elephants to steal farmers crops

b)

Farmers want to have elephant trunks

c)

Elephants what to walk on two legs

d)

Loss of habitat causes elephants to build houses and take over subdivisions

9.

Which country is divided between a mainland area and an island?

a)

Indonesia

b)

Malaysia

c)

the Philippines

d)

Timor Leste

10.

What is one of the two official lang. of the Philippines?

a)

Chinese

b)

English

c)

Malay

d)

Sparish

11.

What type of migration did the Indonesian gov. promote?

a)

farms to citites

b)

outer islands to inner islands

c)

islands to mainland

d)

inner islands to outer islands

12.

What caused Malaysia and Singapore to separate?

a)

ethnic tensions

b)

geographic separation

c)

colonial histories

d)

economic competition

13.

Why did the gov. of Singapore invest in infrastructure improvements?

a)

to gain access to current technologies

b)

to build green sources of energy

c)

to improve the country's water supply

d)

to double electrical production

14.

What threatens the ability of the Malaysian gov. to control information?

a)

growing literacy rates

b)

foreign troublemakers

c)

new media technologies

d)

political propaganda

15.

What geographic factor makes it difficult for the gov. of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines to unify their countries?

a)

Physically fragmented countries with diverse ethnic groups

b)

Physically put together countries with diverse ethnic groups

c)

Physically fragmented countries with one ethnic group

d)

They all have a McDonald's

16.

What type of society does the gov. of Singapore want its country to have?

a)

Industrialized,economically prosperous society that is strictly controlled and has little crime

b)

Industrialized with a DQ and lots of crime

c)

Industrialized,economically prosperous society that is strictly controlled and lots of crime

d)

little crime and lots on home grown businesses